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Adam Lovallo, Co-Founder, CourseReport.com & Grow.co

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Catalyzing with Content: What B2Cs Should Be Doing in The First Six

Months

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What we didWhat we fucked up

What worked

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Who I am:• Ran customer acquisition/retention

at LivingSocial

• Co-founded coursereport.com

• Fair warning: I love business stock photography

Adam Lovallo | @alovallo

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Let’s begin!

Adam Lovallo | @alovallo

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coursereport.com

• Ratings/review site for programming bootcamps

• Focused on organic search

• Lead gen model

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coursereport.com

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Yay - Bootstrap!

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coursereport.com/schools

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coursereport.com/school-name

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coursereport.com/blog/blog-post

BONUS:Tags link to

schools!

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At this point I’m feeling

good

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We have 6 entity types…– schools– campuses/locations– courses– Instructors– cities– blog posts

… let’s give each one a page!

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Fuck up #1

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Google thought it was duplicative because it was

Inbound links were spread across different (similar)

pages

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Deploying new pages/templates was easy

I didn’t stop to think about how those pages would have

distinct content

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Fuck up #2

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Filters = search results

My first idea: index it all - more pages that can

rank!

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https://www.coursereport.com/schools?focus=Rails&location=New+York

Vs:https://www.coursereport.com/

cities/new-york

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My second idea: use rel= canonical

Closer… but no

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My third idea: Noindex!

Better!

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The future?Why not create pages for

common filters with unique content?

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https://www.coursereport.com/schools?focus=Rails&location=New+York

https://www.coursereport.com/cities/new-york/rails

Plus content! Hooray!

https://www.coursereport.com/schools?focus=Rails&location=New+York
https://www.coursereport.com/schools?focus=Rails&location=New+York
https://www.coursereport.com/schools?focus=Rails&location=New+York
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Ok, so what content then?Guides

ListsEditorial analysis

U.G.C.Interviews

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Guides•Big time investment•Useful for email capture too

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Lists•First thing people do… so extremely competitive

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Editorial

Also takes a lot of time

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UGCChicken v Egg

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Interviews!!!

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• Pros:– Easy to produce– Universally applicable– Almost always interesting– Potentially good link bait

• Cons:– Editing is a huge pain in the ass

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Pro tip

eLance & Odesk!Cheap, relatively high

quality, and dramatically increase output

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More on elanceTry a couplePlenty of solid english speakers$5 -$10 MAX per hour<24 hour turn around, if not sub <3

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Site is in placeMost effective content

is knownLet’s get links!

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Conquesting!• Only could drum up ~50-100

decent targets• Yielded a few decent quality links

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Guest blogging• Templatized/mass outreach has not

worked for us at all• Success with:–Partnering with players in the space

(schools)–Focusing on adjacent niches (ex: Women

in tech, Career advice)

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The money maker!

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Results

• 14 links on release–EdSurge, FastCompany, Tech

Cocktail• Continues to draw ~1 high quality

backlink per week

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Quick tips

• Roughly 10% hit rate amongst our primary reporter target list• Downloadable PDF seemed to add

some authority/credibility• Referencing other original research

also added credibility

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Takeaways

• Simpler page structure to start• More focus on static pages• Find pockets of content that are both

fast & good• Invest in long form content… it really

is worth it BUT you need a purpose in mind

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And finally

Interested in a bootcamp- coursereport.com

Interested in acq events/conferences – grow.co

Do you know a lot about SEO and think we are doing something wrong? I’m sure you are right.

Email me at [email protected]


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